The stretched or simultaneous present is an effect of acceleration, not its successor

Evidence

The initial hypothesis of this work runs as follows: the experience of modernization is an experience of acceleration. … In contrast, several authors have recently objected that the defining experience of time in late modernity is no longer that of acceleration, but rather that of the simultaneity of highly heterogeneous events and processes, which leads to the temporal perspective of a prolonged (Hanns-Georg Brose) or stretched (Helga Nowotny) present. … I agree with this diagnosis to a great extent, but I will argue that this observed alteration in the consciousness of time and the time horizon represents a consequence and manifestation, or a new level, of the process of acceleration and cannot be interpreted as its replacement by a new temporal principle. — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration, 124

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: The claim that the felt simultaneity and ‘prolonged present’ of late modernity is itself an acceleration product, not a rival temporal principle, fundamentally reframes how we read digital-era time experience — a genuinely dense reordering that resists quick summary.
• XREF: connects to: Acceleration reaches a point where it abandons autonomy and produces rigidified time despite dynamization — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration: A New Theory of…, 121; Apparent slowdowns are not counterforces but products of acceleration itself — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration: A New Theory of…, 294; Recurring time-pressure complaints indicate constant acceleration, not a high absolute pace — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration: A New Theory of…, 266 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Apparent slowdowns are not counterforces but products of acceleration itself #corroborates (0.90) — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration, 294
• Acceleration reaches a point where it abandons autonomy and produces rigidified time despite dynamization #corroborates (0.83) — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration, 121
• Recurring time-pressure complaints indicate constant acceleration, not a high absolute pace #corroborates (0.82) — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration, 266
• Apparent deceleration is often itself a strategy of acceleration #corroborates (0.82) — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration, 280
• Time scarcity despite technical acceleration forms a distinct third acceleration category #qualifies (0.80) — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration, 228
• Motion emerges only for the For-itself as the temporal constitution of space #corroborates (0.75) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 643